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Coaches Show tonight

Need to go to Huntsville and get a win over SLC champion...….play hard and give yourself a chance to win...…

ACU gets credit for H2 offense by Bears but we were inept...…..taking 3s rather than driving inside when you have not scored in 3-4 times in a row...…….Bears played good enough defense to win with a little better offense..

Bennett maybe out for rest of season and Tanner nursing a strain...

Thatch needs only 22 points for 1000 points...….

Remember that ACU did not make tourney last year...….Tennessee was 16-16 two year ago...….got to keeping working with a young team…….

@SamHoustonState

UCA 46-45=91 (7-10)
SHS 38-49=87 (15-2)


UCA/SHS

FGs: 53% v 52%
3s: 48% v 35%
FTs: 88% v 75%.....Bears +13 made
Rebs: 26 v 34.....only 4 o-rebs
TOs: 6 v 8...wow

That's better! Kats may have taken us for granted some but found out they had a dog fight on their senior day. First ever win at Huntsville........Jones led with 22/3/9A... and 11/11 FTs.......Chatham was 16/3 off the bench.......Koval 16/4/4A.....Unruh 14/4/4A......Kayouloud 13/4/4A.....

Now for Northwestern State.......

SLC Standings, after 3/6/19 games

(H)=at Farris Center
(@)=away

1. SHS, 15-2; at SFA
2. ACU, 13-4; hosts UIW
3. UNO, 12-6
4. SLU, 12-5 ; at Nicholls
5. LU, 11-6; hosts McNeese
6T. TAMCC, 8-9; hosts HBU
6T. HBU, 8-9; at TAMCC
8T. SFA, 7-10; hosts SHS
8T UCA, 7-10; at Northwestern State
10T. NWS, 6-11; host UCA
10T. Nicholls, 6-11 ; hosts Southeastern
12. McNeese, 5-12; at Lamar
13. UIW, 1-16...……...lost to HBU 118-111 - at ACU


UCA Outlook:

1. Beat NWS, SFA and Nicholls lose - Bears in at no worse than #8 seed
2. Bears and SFA both win and tie along with TAMCC/HBU loser...only two make it
3. Bears lose and SFA wins, then Bears out
4. Bears and SFA lose and Nicholls wins, then Bears tied with SFA, NWS and Nicholls
5. More options?????

Tiebreaker Rule at:

https://southland.org/sports/2017/1/31/2017_BB_TB.aspx

@NWS

UCA 41-29=70 (8-10)
NWS 21-42= 63 (6-12)

Thatch Unrun had terrific game with 30/4/1A/2S......60%+ FGs and 5/6 3s......Koval a nice 12/5/2B....Schmidt 9/5 and Jones 7/6/4A/1S....

Unruh joins Bear's 1000+ point carrer list....

Off to Katy as #7 seed............at least we have played well several games in a row now....end regular season 13-18......

SLC Tourney
Katy, Texas

Game 7:
#4 UNO v #2 ACU, 60-76

Game 6:
#2 ACU v #3 Southeastern, 69-66

Game 5:
#4 UNO vs #1 SHS, 79-76

Game 4:
#3 Southeastern vs #7 UCA, 79-65

UCA/SLU

FGs: 38% v 48%
3s: 30% v 31%
FTs: 84% v 85%
Rebs: 27 v 38
TOs: 12 v 13


Trailed by 11 at half after leading early...……...long dry spell got us behind......kept coming back in H2 but could not get below 10...Lions went 16-19 FTs in last 3-4 minutes of game.....between Lions +11 reb edge was important....Thatch Unruh made his last game as a Bear a good one with 23/3A....Koval another solid DD with 15/10/1A/4S/2B.....Jones added 11 and Mondesir 8.....

Game 3:
#5 Lamar vs #4 UNO, 72-76

Game 2:
#7 UCA vs #6 TAMCC, 73-53


UCA 36-37=73
TAMCC 25-28=53

UCA/TAMCC
FGs: 44% v 33%
3s: 38% v 25%
FTs: 79% vs 100% …...Bears +17 made
Rebs: 36 v 33
TOs: 10 v 12

Thatch Unruh another excellent game at 21/5/1A/2S...Koval a strong 15/11 double double....Mondesir solid at 13/4.....Jones as well at 11/6/5A/3S....

Game 1:
#8 HBU vs #5 Lamar, 79-81

Thursday night was a tough loss....appreciate the effort of this group, particularly the seniors.

Time to move on to spring football.....

Disappointing season.

We have got to get stronger, bigger, more physical and not rely so much on 3 pointers.

Yep, when you live by the 3, you die by the 3...

NCAA Tourney

15 seed ACU gets the opportunity to play 2 seed Kentucky in First Round at Jacksonville...…..Wildcats win 79-44 (UK that is)

Besides ACU, Bears out of conference opponents that made the tourney include...……

#13 see Saint Louis (23-12) who get to play #4 seed Va Tech (24-8) in San Jose.....Billikens fall 66-52

#7 seed Louisville (23-10) plays #10 seed Minnesota (21-13) at Des Moines….GGs win 86-76 over Cards

PS.....In the NIT, SHS fell to TCU in the first round by 82-69 after training only by 34-30 at half.

PS2.....12 seed Murray State downs 5 seed Marquette and Markus Howard (29) by 83-64